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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people…
— Hugo Black
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire…
— Jean Batten
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire…
— Jean Batten
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The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is…
— Allen Tucker
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That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about…
— Umberto Eco
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Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?
— Elif Safak
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You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands…
— Ted Cruz
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Join the Army! Travel to exotic, distant lands. Meet exciting, unusual people, and kill them.
— Unknown Author
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